New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1929, Page 20

Love’s Awakening 'l‘hllnrt suwu« W-n By Adele GaITison cnmmanmmmmasnmsnnnnnn leng. It he took advantage of the opportupity Harry Underwood adreitly had given him for a word alone with Edith Fairfax be did not spend much time in the conversa- tieon. We were securely settled in the big car with the moter idling, ready for an instant's start, when he appeared at the door of the building which houses the art maga- zine. He was carrying the bag which Mr. Underwoed had left for him, and with it & square package so hastily wrapped and tied that it was almest falling apart. Knowing ti= fastidiousness, I judged that the percel must have been an after theught, caught up and wrapped in haste at the last moment. He opened the door of the ton- neau and deposited the bag on the | floor. But he kept the box with him as he took his seat beside Mr. Underwood in front, and carried it all during the drive—another unus- ual proceeding for him, as he dis- likes to be bothered with the care of anything while traveling. “What you got there, old turnip?” Mr. Underwood gibed. “A hatch- ing of eggs?” “You might call it that,” returned a bit shortly, and the promptness with which Harry Un- derwood dropped the subject instead of keeping up his raillery as in his usual custom, told me that he had caught and accepted Dicky's disin- clination to discuss the package. Feminine Curiosity Of course my feminine curiosity occupled itself for the rest of the journey with the mysterious parcel. Tut Dicky vouchsafed no word con- cerning it, and when we had reached the farm, he went directly to his + room bearing it with him. Tn the carcfully casual relations which have been Dicky's and mine for the last year, we tacitly see to it that quently with apparent friendliness. But when a few minutes after going to his room, he appeared agamn, without the box, he skillfully aveid- ed my vicinity. Nor did his eyes meet mine once at dinncr. How 1 got through the meal T do; not know. The vision of Edith rfax decked out in the ornaments Dicky had given her, was constant- Iy befere me as T had seen her in the mirror at my husband's oftice. Dicky | talk to cach other fre-| Vainly I tried to call to my aid the conviction my common sense, backed by Lilllan's opinion, always has given me—that Dicky's admiration tor Edith’'s capabilities as a busi- ness partner is untinged by roman- tic sentiment. There had heen some- | thing in his voice—or so I imagined | —when he told her to look at her reflection in the mirror, which was as mightily provocative of jealous conjecture as the beautiful gift he | had made her. If it had not been for Lillian and Harry I am afraid the other mem- !twru of our family would have seen that something was distinctly wrong with me, for I was like a person who had received a blow, with dulled perceptions, and slowness of thought. But leyally, skillfully, they covered my sllence, keeping up #0 incessantly the rattle of merry quips in which they both excel that the silence of anyone else at the | table passed unnoticed. Nanta Claus Comes When we went into the library for our after-dinner coffee, Dicky drank m- hurriedly and strode to the door. here everybody until T ge back,” he said peremptorily, “I won't be gone five minutes.” It was nearer ten, however, when | he appeared, carrying a pasteboard box about the size of the wrapped parcel he had brought from the city. He set it down on the table, lifted the lid and beckoned to Junior, who, enthroned on Mr. Underwoed's knees, was making the most of the hour left him before his bedtime. “Come here son, and play Santa | €laus.” he said. It is a familiar role to Junior, for both Dicky and Harry Underwood revel in bringing heme nonsensical gifta for the whole family which Junior distributes with the same pride of office that he gives to the lowers and bonbons which our men 1so bring heme to us with flatter- |ing frequency. | Our voung son dashed up te the table and Dicky handed him a small box, evidently that of a jeweler, with | his grandmother's name on it. Then in rapid succession Junior distri- buted similar hoxes to Lillian, to Katherine, to Mary and to me, re- | turning to Lillian a second time with a box marked for Marion. | “Now look at the loot.” Dicky said |as Junter returncd to the table, (Continued Tomorrow) (Copyright, 1929, Newspaper Feature Service, Inc.) | THE NIBBLERS HAVE A SHOUK By (Thornton W, Burgess) ‘en when there scems to need, Waich out, heed. be no| and signs of danger | =—Nibbler the Mouse Nibbler the House Mouse, to- gether with Mrs. Nibbler and several | of their_children, had nioved from Farmer Brown’s house out to Farm- er Brown's barn early in the winter. There had been a reason. Indeed, there had heen several ons. One of these reasons was Bl Pussy the Cat. The other reasons were traps. At first, thers had heen only one or two traps and it was casy to keep away from them. TRut more and more traps had been set and every other day one of the children had been caught. So finally the Nibblers moved out to the harn. There there was little to worr) about excepting Black Pussy and it wasn't difficult to keep out of her way. To be sure, there was Robber the Rat, who wouldn't hesitate to dine on a family of young mice, if he could find them. Rut the barn was 50 big that it was easy to keep out of the way of Robber. Ro ever since early winter Nibblers had been living very and comfortably. They did miss the cake and bread and hits of cheese and other goodies such as they used to find in Mother Rrown's pantry But, as little Mrs, Nibbler said, “%\ have plenty of goond plain foed. why should we worry? After all. it is the plain things of life that are the hest. Simple, plain food makes healthy mice."” 8, though the children sometimes the turned up their noses at clover and | grass seed. oats, wheat, corn and meal, there was vers little complain ing and the Nibbler family was thriving. £o long had it heen si was any serious danger th the Nibblers had grown Even Nibbler himself. had grown careless. Black Pussy didn‘t snend much fime in the harn, and when she was there It was an easy matter 16 keep an eye on her. It was only the most careless of mice who ever was surprised and caught by Black Puesv, By this fime the Nibblers numbored several families. Mr. and Mra. Nibbler believe in having plenty of children and having them often. No sooner is one set of children out of the way than another set is born, 8 Nibbler and Mre. Nibbler had be- came great-great-grandparents since they came out to the barn. You see. their children and theie children's | children had families of their own. Then, just at dusk, a dreadful thing havpened, ‘eldest mon. The latter was on his way over to the grain bin. Nibbler had just come from there. turned and watched his oldest son rut ont on the barn floor. He there t all of just reached the grain bin when he was seized and carried who had seized him know. No, sir, know. “Tt wasn't Rlack Pussy,” explained Nibbler to Mra. Nibbler, when ho got home with the sad news, “Nn, it wasn't Rlack Pusey. T couldn’t wee just who it was Wihoever 1t was, xeemed fo come from out of the air. T was too surprised and shoacked to really use my eyes” In no time at all %ews went all through the big barn { awuy. Just Nibhler didn't Nibbler et e b i - S happy | 0| reless. | Nibbler had just met his | Nibbler | haa | didn’t | sir. | the dreadful | | Nibbler had just met his cldest son nd there was a great squaking as he Nibbler families talked it ove fhat very same night another mou was caught. As before, no one seemed to know just how it was done, or who it was that did it. it was clear that there was an enemy | |in the barn and all the Nibblers be- | came very much excited and nerv- | ous and frightened, The next day three mice were mys- teriously caught. This was getting serious. Nibbler called together all the other grown members of his |2 family and they talked it all over. | But as yet no one had discovered |3 the strange enemy. me thought it might be Shadow the Weasel, | Some thought it might be Rilly | Mink. Nons guessed who it really ]v\.nk | (Copyright, 1929, by T. W. Burgess) The next Shadow.” story—"The Terrible PLANNING GARDEN While winter 1s upon us, is ripe o plan one's spring With pencil and paper o can plottad out, catalogs will give more ideas for flling than one can use, [cost can be computed and dates marked in for such important things as gefting the soil ready, buying planting seed and so on, the time | Fashlon VPlaque White teen, so smart for the | south, is used for this beret with tly tucked crown and deftly fold- ed brim, ernamented with two small | chicks, of strass. f D st ot e B 04 1 Rut | | imcket Backward, lurn bnck\\u\'d O Time, in yuur flight !” Short, Easy Words 11l Z I [Z111) HEREF”HER7 ARER EFFR”7EER7/RPRR | i, | . puzzie tough ' yesterday's one.” of | || Y l/l%lllll will make up for | None the words has more than five letters. | [PTRITIMIAILEQ 0] fl Horlze tant in tin Eceentric wheel . Shaped mass of sugar. Region. Beer, Brim. Dark red vegetable . Tital of courtesy . To opine. - Elevation of the hodily tempera- | ture . Austerity. Guide in a theater. | Round and tapering to a point. | Bottom part of a room. . Insurgent 2. Officer of & church . Resembling the moon. Tanner's vessels . Serrated instrument . Fiber used for To eject. . To piece ont . Plant from which is darived Spirited or spicy Carmine, . Face of a clock Vertical Work 2. Native 3. Born . Natural hanks. . Box Swarming Nothing more than . Guided Type of poem 10. Era . Thigh bone. . Fluted narrow . King. . Frozen water. . Sailor. . Unit. Sun. . Mortar tray. . Before . Stream. . Asp To repulse. Employer. . Inspired reverential o . Eucharist vessel. . Twitching Pen Possersed. metal channel betwe riffle en making cordage, A bitter drug sand . Prophet who trained Samuel Flightiess ratite bird BLUE "N’ BLUY spring suit of fin Wlue and white gored skirt has its blonse A dittle ed navy with pol sized dots as the darker Herald Classified tainly world beaters. Ads polka and two hutton rint- | dots fabric. are cer- | IGTERL [ ICIA[TIE] B ST EMCIElL 8] flflsflaeafifl'“ = STEVART oIE] Menas for the Family A Aomemade Cleaner | A vinegar and sall solution is an | aid in cleaning. M i by Linoistening 1-3 cup of. salt with 1-4 [eup of vinegar. Apply on a soft oth to stained or sireaked porc tiain or snamel table |tables or plain wooden ftops of [tahles With a little rubbing the | articles will eaned inger m | arased by the application | his eotution, Yaf fower eva | Copper and b tops, a he will remove ssware will proved by an application INMVER MENU |Ureamed Celery and Poached E Buttered (‘abbage Biscuit Pluh Jam gus Balad & Piquant Dressing "o Nut Cookies stains. be im- |16 spears | pieces lettuce, | Arrange the asparazus on the let- | uee leaves and add the Piquant Dressing Piquant 4 tabiespoons spoons vinegar, ekl relish Dressing dad oil, 2 table- 1-4 cup chopped 1-4 cun fine chopped lery, 13 teaspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon | paprika, 1-4 teaspoon dry mustard, |1 hard boiled egz, diced Mix the ingredients and heat with |a fork. Chill. When ready to serve | pour over the prepared salads. » cups dark hrown |sugar, 2 eggs. 1 teaspoon vanilla, | 1-4 teaspoon salt, 1 toaspoon cinna- mon. 1 teaspoon clove 1 teaspoon nutmeg, 1 teaspoon soda, 1. nuts, 4 tablespoons sonr ercam, 4 of light blue | cups flour. dotted silk preciscly the same | Cream the fat and sugar | rest of the ingredicnts. Miv well and chill. Break off small hits of iough and flatten down, three inche lapart, on greased haking shest: Add the BY MRS, ALEXANDER GEORGE breakfast | ke on weodwork can quickly be | | placed in the hottom cup | | utes, Creamed Celery and Poached Eggs, Ser 1 cup diced celery, 1 cup water, | I teaspoon salt, 1-4 teaspoon chop- ped onion. Mix the ingrodients and cook slow- {1y In & covered pan jor 10 minutes, brain and reserve the:stock. Add the celery to the sauce Shops Maintain M‘m) Branches Paris, Jan, P The list of places where Paris fashion houses are doing business in branch s- tablishments at the present time reads like a southern tour guide- hook. Nice, Can.ae Monte Carlo, Niarrit Al have miniature estab- lishments with big numes over the door where special sport collections are on exhibit Professionul huvers, flock to Paris a little first showing of spriv models, now are making the rounds of the re. sorts, looking for advance i tion on what is to come, preliminary pure will bhe sent to Palm Beach and American sonthern rese Many natur silks, and linen mistures shantung and tussore | calors are on exhibit | according to reports. Yellow, blue and reen are the leading colors Iehown for sport with white in great vogne Colored shioes, bandbags ort dresses Brown bination dressed w and b who will later for the some silk and heavy in plain dyed at the resorts, hats shie and on and white is also a com- vored by miany smartly men. Brown straw hats n and white sport shoes with white costumes. and white res are with cmblos, Boauty Winners | | Margarct Denney has been solected by students as the wost beautiful co-ed at Arkansas {Stateé Teachers' college. Silas Snow, 180 of Conway, was voted the most handsome youth. of Conway, Ark Bake in a moderate oven for 10 min- | * 00 - HONEY ~ CHEER LIO— WERE GOING 10 T GPIFERT CARD PARTY 10-NIGHT ~—Go ARRY H0W -ty GeT oul’ MANNERS By Alice Judson Peale Good manncrs are among the at- tributes which make for success and a smooth path in lite. The person who is oblivious to the nice mani- festations of courtesy is under a definite social handicap. Children are nagged about nothing 80 much as their manners. No won- der the adolescent often goes through & period of rebellion. Commonly we seek to inculcate good munners by frequent reminders ad- ministered to the child in public er in private, with little consideration for his feelings—hardly in itself an example of the thing we would have him learn. The child who s often made aware of small lapres, eapecially when this is done in the presence of others, is likely to develop so much annoyance in connection with the ohservance of polite forms that he | takes pleasure in outraging them. As in the caze of other desirable behavior, geod manners may best be cultivated by the use of as few positive checks and reminders as possible. The child should not he held to perfection all at once. With the little child each *‘please” and “thank you' ‘is not so important as his wish te be helpful and consider- ate, It his heart I8 in the right place he will learn without much help the manifestations of consideration. Here, as always, the child learns by example rather than by precept. The child of well mannered parents eventually becomes a well mannered adult. He may go through many phases in the process of his growth. For a while he may show an alarm- ing tendency to accept standards of the tough gaug down the street, but unless the child is theroughly out of harmony with his heme, he seoner or later accepts its weys and adepts itsmanners. GUSSET APRON The apron folloxa whers the frock leads, . #o far as style goes. Spring kitchen aprons can he made very swanky by Introducing little gussets of colar in the sides. A pret little rlo:k sometimes can contribute a friendly live note that makes a living thing of a room that was entirely inanimate hefore, The latest thing in pajamas last one to get hdme. | Editor Journal of (h YOUR HEALTH BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN American Med- fcal Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine, The length of our lives seems to be determined largely by our here- dity, since those who come from familien that tend to live long also tend to live long. Our environment undoubtedly plays a part, since deaths from ac- cident, congestion of population, speed of civilization and infection must be put under environmental factors. Bclentific studies recently made on the nutrition of animals {indicate that the third important factor is the amount and nature of food in- take. In order to prove the effects of nutrition, Drs. H. C. Sherman and H, L. Campbell fed 400 rats of ap- proximately the mame heredity and living under conditions alike in all other respects on two different diets. The diets were adequate in both in- stapnces, except that one contalned a higher proportion of milk than did the other. o The animals on the diet with the higher proportion of milk lived on “n average of 10 per cent longer than «id those with less milk. Hence, the increased longevity may be aceredit- ed to the fact that an already ade- quate diet was Improved by addition- al quantities of a substance kunown as one of the mosat important food sub- stances for the living animal. rammd B It has always seemal reasonable to believe that the hunan dict bore a definite relationship wo the length of human life. It is w:ll to have a scientific confirmation o a fact that has taken gan thousants of years to learn through bitter t‘\’\vrh‘h(’ Woman Bosflr of Tepee Among Navajp Indians Washington, Jan. 25 (UP)—Old women #Fe the rulers in a portion ot the United States—the northern Navajo Indian reservition In Arl- zona and New Mexico. Superintendent H. H. Kneale of the reservation has repotted to the interior department that the N jo women, in preparation for ruling in thelr later years, leary to work at all of the tasks performed by the tribe. “The woman is the powwr on the Navajo reservation,” his rejort said. “The immediate family strks to. gether and there is no Navijo com. munity life. The head of th: family group usually is the grandnother.” He declared that the yourg wom. en of the tribe not only cooi, wash and make garments, but they herd sheep and generally do the major |share of the weaving of ther rugs {and clothing. The men farmand do the hunting. TWIN l'Rl\’l‘h New silks for apring now come n what are called .twin prints. There are two sizes of the same pattern, the finely printed one for tie freck land perhaps kerchief, the larger, |bolder print of the same patern for the sports coat.